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Final call for Artists’ Submissions

Artists’ Submissions close this Friday – 24 November 2017 at 12 noon

For the past 23 years, manchester jazz festival (mjf) has provided a platform for local, regional, national and international artists to get their work heard by our artistic director. Our artists’ submissions portal provides us with distinctive festival content that may not otherwise reach our attention, and provides artists with professional and sympathetic performance opportunities for risk-taking work that might not appeal to many other programmers.

mjf is not only about making contemporary jazz music accessible to audiences, but making the audiences accessible to musicians. At mjf, we welcome artists’ submissions from anyone who would like to be considered to perform at the festival – whether that be a solo vocalist, a 14-piece band, an unlikely combination of vocals and instruments or any other contemporary music formation that can be imagined. We are especially interested in bands and projects that further our celebrated priorities of championing female instrumentalists, artists from various cultural backgrounds, work that blurs the boundaries of genre definition and work that features north west artists.

We try to offer many different performance environments throughout the festival; however, we’d especially like to receive more submissions from acoustic-based duos and trios, and from bands suitable for outdoor performances.

We try to make our application processes and programming policy as open as possible, with each of the four mjf programme strands being open calls. mjf was the first festival to launch an open artists’ submissions process and it still forms a valuable part of our programming process today.

To apply for mjf 2018, submit your application on the mjf website by 12 noon on 24 November 2017, when applications close and the programming team have the pleasurable prospect of listening to each submission. We look forward to hearing yours!